The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 13Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1843 - United States |
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... thought , and moods of mind of the writer ; responding with singular felici- ty to all the natural undulations of the soul ; and , when read aloud , to those of the voice . This is especially true of the History of the French Revolution ...
... thought , and moods of mind of the writer ; responding with singular felici- ty to all the natural undulations of the soul ; and , when read aloud , to those of the voice . This is especially true of the History of the French Revolution ...
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... thought . We note in Carlyle , with great plea- sure , an unceasing effort to make his readers remark the significance , the wonderfulness of what is ordinary and familiar . To him the thaumaturgic WORD Sounds out from all , from the ...
... thought . We note in Carlyle , with great plea- sure , an unceasing effort to make his readers remark the significance , the wonderfulness of what is ordinary and familiar . To him the thaumaturgic WORD Sounds out from all , from the ...
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... thought and hinted , at last it is done . And now Tom being killed , and all spent and eaten , is it poor little starveling Jack that must go , or poor little starveling Will ? What an inquiry of ways and means ! " — pp . 1–4 . These ...
... thought and hinted , at last it is done . And now Tom being killed , and all spent and eaten , is it poor little starveling Jack that must go , or poor little starveling Will ? What an inquiry of ways and means ! " — pp . 1–4 . These ...
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... thought and freedom of man has literally made the winds his speech , but merely that thou shouldst , messengers , and flames of fire his in high - sounding and well - turned peri- ministers ; all nature works for him ; ods , laud ...
... thought and freedom of man has literally made the winds his speech , but merely that thou shouldst , messengers , and flames of fire his in high - sounding and well - turned peri- ministers ; all nature works for him ; ods , laud ...
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... thought , and its general bearings on Christian faith , are not always duly considered . The Fathers of the Church in the first five centuries had culled out from it all that Christianity would assimilate to itself , and made it an ...
... thought , and its general bearings on Christian faith , are not always duly considered . The Fathers of the Church in the first five centuries had culled out from it all that Christianity would assimilate to itself , and made it an ...
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Page 24 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 38 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 277 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 607 - Alastor may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe.
Page 316 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus!
Page 276 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!
Page 281 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 615 - It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought; it is that from which all spring, and that which adorns all; and that which, if blighted, denies the fruit and the seed, and withholds from the barren world the nourishment and the succession of the scions of the tree of life.
Page 281 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful firelight Dance upon the parlor wall ; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 615 - Poetry turns all things to loveliness; it exalts the beauty of that which is most beautiful, and it adds beauty to that which is most deformed; it marries exultation and horror, grief and pleasure, eternity and change; it subdues to union under its light yoke all irreconcilable things.